Recently, I did a 16 day water fast. While it is not for everyone, it was a pretty incredible experience and in this episode I cover:

•what water fasting is

•why people fast and the benefits of it

•creating a challenge for yourself and going beyond your comfort zone

•why I did it

•my previous experience of 7 day water fasting

•the stages of water fasting and what you can expect

•ketosis and autophagy

•what happened for me during the 16 days and what I got out of it

•the experience post fast

•being ok about making informed decisions that are right for you, regardless of other people's opinions

*DISCLAIMER this episode is me talking about my experience and it is my opinion only. It is not to be taken as endorsement of water fasting and is not medical advice. If you are thinking about doing a water fast, please seek professional advice and do plenty of research to work out if it is right for you.

One of the areas of our life that is often lacking is having fun and relaxing. We are so busy and so consumed by all of the other priorities that we just don't think we have the time to chill out, relax and have fun - just for the sake of it. In this episode, you'll start to consider having relaxing and having fun as a mindset. How can you inject more breath, more fun and more relaxation into your life every day?

In this episode, you'll meet Alex White and hear her experience of becoming a stepmum (to my two kids), and how the experience has been for her over the last few years. Becoming a stepmum, or a step parent, is not easy and learning how to adapt to an existing family dynamic is challenging. People often remark on how well we make our blended family work and how well we all get on. Join us as we discuss how we make our blended family work - parenting, communication, boundaries, love, acceptance, relationships and friendship.

In this episode of the podcast, you will learn an amazing little strategy to help you improve your relationships, become more aware of your belief systems, thought processes and emotions and to help you move from a space of reacting to the world, to beginning to respond. To be in the drivers seat of your life.

Practicing being teflon creates an opening to start to see yourself, the world and other people in a different way, it creates the space for more understanding and allows for improved communication - within yourself and with others.

Knowledge and awareness are nothing without understanding and action.

Most us know what we are meant to be doing, but are we doing it? Why don't we do those things we say we want to do, that we know we should be doing?

Deciding on what we want to do and then sticking at it, well, most of our lives are littered with good intentions. There always seems to be something more important to do.

And good intentions without backed up and consistent action don't actually get us anywhere.

At The Happiness Hunter, our philosophy is very simple. If you want your life to change, then you need to change.

In The Academy, not only will you learn practical, proven strategies and actions to step you on the path to living your best life, our community is here to support you and keep you accountable every step of the way.

Taking action each day, checking in each week and reflecting each month, you will really get some momentum going to start achieving your daily goals. No more planning and writing and dreaming and wishing, and then feeling bad. We are here to keep it super simple and super supportive to help you get off the hamster wheel of going nowhere - to focus, create new habits and simply do the things you want to be doing.

The way to live your best life, is to learn how to show up every day as the best possible version of you.

In The Academy, we focus on small, daily, incremental changes to build your foundation, set your day up well, and to put you in the strongest position to achieve success in every area of your life.

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•weekly step count challenges

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Great lives are made up of great days, and great days are made up of all the decisions we make through the day... starting with the intention of having a great day. Making the decision to have a great day is a choice. In this episode of the podcast, you'll learn about the importance of implementing a morning routine, and the steps you can take to balance yourself and put yourself in the position to have a great day, every day.

In this episode of the podcast, you'll meet Maz Compton. Maz is a TV presenter, radio announcer, one of Australia's foremost entertainment reporters and author of The Social Rebellion: true freedom begins with a cheeky month alcohol-free. Maz is on the show to talk about how her life has changed since she stopped drinking 5 years ago, and what to expect in the first month.

Deciding to stop drinking - or deciding to take a break from drinking - is the first step in being able to reflect on your relationship with alcohol. But what happens next? On day 2, on day 23? After a year? After two years? What are the benefits? How does life change? How do you explain yourself to your friends who want you to drink with them still? How do you avoid replacing one bad habit with another habit... like eating too much chocolate?

If you've ever wondered about your relationship with alcohol, or maybe you are just a little bit interested in understanding more about what makes for problem drinking, then make sure you listen to this episode to hear Fiona and Maz get really honest about their experience with life beyond drinking.

Hope: A feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen. In this episode of The Happiness Hunter Podcast, Fiona shares about the power of hope and positive action to help us all through the bush fire crisis. We are currently experiencing bush fires in Australia the likes of which we have never seen before, and there is no precedent for how to contain them. It seems that we all have a connection to the people and places affected, and there is a huge amount of worry and anxiety and distress. This episode of the podcast is to share how we can use that connection in the most positive of ways, to focus our energy not on anger and blame, but to focus our energy on positive, constructive and hopeful action. How we can still care - deeply - without feeding in to the fear and the negativity. There is always hope. There is always light within the darkness. Sometimes we really have to look for it, but it is always there.

Discover what a Major Definite Purpose - or a Chief Aim - for your life is, and learn how to create one for yourself. Deciding on your Major Definite Purpose, being clear about what you desire and what you are prepared to exchange for what you desire, writing it down and reading it every day will begin to reprogram your subconscious mind. This episode was inspired by Napoleon Hill and his book Think and Grow Rich, and shares the steps to create your own, discussing examples that you can base yours on, including Fiona' and Bruce Lee's.

The process of creation can be messy and what looks all shiny and effortless from the outside is more often than not the result of a lot of trial and error, a lot of getting out of your own way and a solid support crew. Join Fiona as she shares the process she went through and the experience of creating The Happiness Hunter Podcast, including narrowing her focus, overcoming imposter syndrome and getting started.